If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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